Neo pov
"I just ate a peanut!" Emerald turned to stare at me with wide incredulous eyes,
She practically exploded with excitement "did you just talk?!"
Shaking my head I pulled out my vibrating scroll just as it repeated the ring tone ~I just ate a peanut!~
"Oh its your ring tone?" At my nod she continued looking distinctly disappointed "oh, well I suppose 'I just ate a peanut' would be a weird thing for you to say right now anyway right?"
Snorting I nodded and was just reading the text message I got when the window crashed inwards and there was Dove laying in a huge pile of glass. Blinking I stood and approached her concern weighing heavily on me, until she groaned and rolled to her feet. Smiling at us she said "feel like joining in a fight? Team RWBY and team JNPR figured out we're here and they aren't happy"
"No kidding!" came the shouted response as Mercury came soaring in the same window, landing sprawled in Dove's arms. Peering up at his girlfriend he said "hello love, I do believe we've got this the wrong way round."
Rolling my eyes I jogged over to the window and saw all eight members of the combined teams scowling up at us. Turning back I rose an eyebrow at the rest of my team, question evident in my eyes 'well are we going or what?'
Grinning Dove said "hell yes!"
Gripping Mercury tighter she whooped loudly before racing past me and hurling herself back out the window.
Emerald shook her head and walked over to me more sedately and said "fancy giving me a lift?" While gesturing to my parasol, grinning I just clicked the lacy pink fabric open and held a hand out to her.
Smirking back she took my hand and we both launched ourselves out the broken window and descended into the chaos bellow.
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Ruby pov (before they reach atlas)
"Jaune your nearly as bad at map reading as Ruby! Just give Ren the map and let him navigate."
"Hey!" I couldn't believe they thought I was bad at map reading, I mean it was true but still!
"Sorry Ruby but its true you couldn't read a map worth your life."
Pouting I said "how come you can't read a map anyway Jaune? I thought all guys were good at these things."
Jaune frowned and said "my sisters alway used to say I am at least 45% woman."
~I am at least 45% woman~
"Wha...!"
Whipping around we all blinked at pyrrha who grinned and waved her scroll back and forth, "that is gonna be my ring tone now!"
"No! Pyrrha, how could you?"
Smiling she said "sorry Jaune but I think this just is so cute especially as you wore a dress to the dance and everything"
"Oh yeah! I forgot about that! That was so funny wasn't it Ren and Now he said his sisters have been saying this for so long makes you wonder what else happened when he was a child." Sighing dreamily Nora continued "I want to meet his sisters! They must have so many good stories!"
"Pyrrha! Look what you did! Im supposed to be the leader! How can I lead you if none of you respect me!"
"Jaune of course we respect you."
Biting my lip I had to fight a grin, Jaune was really sweet but he just didn't scream 'respect me!' especially after we found out his hoodie had a bunny on the front. Apparently spotting my grin he said "Ruby!" Lunging forwards he tackled me into the snow.
"AHHHHHHHHH cold! cold! cold! cold! Very very cold! Jaune!" scrambling back to my feet I hurled a snow ball at his head. unfortunately this quickly dissolved into a all out snow ball fight with team RWBY against team JNPR. I was certain we would win, ducking a snow ball that came very close to my face. We would win! At any cost! Pulling out crescent moon I loaded up with packed snow and started firing, we would win!
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Weiss pov (after fight with winter)
"ugh, can't you guys just stop being family?" We all turned to stare at Ruby wide eyed for that incredibly naive comment.
Shaking my head I said "Ruby you can't just 'stop being family! It doesn't work that way!"
"What doesn't work that way?"
Growling at how impudent she was being by questioning everything I snapped "life! Life doesn't work that way, you naive little girl!"
Ruby pouted and then seemed to bounce back as she said "its so good to have you back Weiss! Ive missed your sarcastic and rude comments so much!"
Under most circumstances I would be offended, however I was almost certain she was being completely sincere, that was just Ruby for you. "Just as I have missed the constant headache you give me!" I knew I was smiling slightly, which ruined the whole bitchy image I was trying to put across and from he grins from everyone I knew they saw it too. Huffing I said "I missed you too Ruby."
"Aw Weiss!" That was all the warning I got before I was being squished in a suffocating hug.
Cringing slightly I was vaguely aware someone was watching me, so after finally escaping the hug I turned only to see the retreating back of the woman in the green cloak. Frowning after the figure who had so soundly defeated my sister, I finally noted who she was walking arm in arm with. "Mercury!"
"What where?!" Echoed around as the rest of the teams spun around wildly trying to spot him.
Pointing I said "over there!" Immediately they all lurched forwards and I was dragged along as we chased after the baddie.
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Dove pov (during fight- set right after Neo pov)
"Hey!"
Whipping my head around to stare at Mercury I wheezed out a slightly winded sounding "yeah" as I jumped over a shot from Ruby's scythe.
"Do you ever wonder why we're here?"
"What the hell Mercury, now is not the time to become all philosophical we are in the middle of a fight! Contemplate the meaning of the universe later!"
"42!" Blinking in confusion for a minute at Nora who grinned and then fired off a whole bunch of missiles at us.
Shaking myself out of my stupor I threw my hands out, channelling blue dust to form a huge wall of ice. The missiles slammed into the ice, shattering it into thousands of tiny pieces which fell to the ground looking like snow. However the wall had done its job taking the missiles out with it.
For a long moment we all just stood there staring intently at each other, waiting for the other side to make a move first. I was panting heavily now, but when fighting against two to one odds it was harder than I thought it would be.
"Maybe I can help with that..."
That was when I realised it wasn't just the wall of ice that was broken it also appeared the most mysterious and magical concept of 'the 4th wall' had also been broken and now I could communicate directly with author. Theories and ideas raced through my head with all the ramifications of this development. If I could talk to the author I could just ask where the people we need to find were, so no more pointless searching. A grin stole across my face, 'well if you could even the odds a little I would much appreciate it, thanks.'
"Sure thing I'll get right on that, this fight needs to end soon any way if your gonna make it in time to meet Ironwood"
Blinking in surprise I thought 'wait we're meeting with Ironwood?'
"Yes?"
Author note: Okay so, from now on there will be some serious 4th wall breaking so if you don't like this I'm really sorry but a friend suggested this and I saw this as the perfect way of speeding up the story just a bit with out leaving huge plot holes in my wake.
So here we are, the next chapter and I hope you all like it. this chapter has so many inside jokes for my friends so if something seems just a little random that is why, I have tried to make them seamless though. As well as this I'm also apologising for jumping around so much in this chapter with so many different pov's, but I'm just trying to set down the base of the next chapters and it kinda required some jumping. But yeah thanks for reading I hope you stick it out until the next chapter and please review! thanks ;)
Merry Christmas every one, this will be my last update until after Christmas so I hope you like it.
-SL xxx